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WikisourceThe Free Library — is a collection of wiki sites, known as a linguistic edition 'project' of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), for primary-source and secondary-source texts, in many different languages. Launched in 2003 and originally known as 'Project Sourceberg', it was a single multilingual wiki site; consisting of a library of free texts. In 2005, it branched out into separate wiki sites for each of its various language versions. Wikisource was subsequently expanded in its scope, and now includes house books, essays, poems, novels, historical documents, letters, speeches, and other documents; as long as they are able be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) open content license.

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Template:Wikistats 2.2-project


All Wikisource wiki sites in these languages: (view / edit / talk)

As of December 2022, Wikimedia Wikidata indicates that there are 75 Wikisource language editions, including the Multilingual Portal. Wikimedia Meta-Wiki indicates that there are 63 Wikisources of different languages, and lists them by size.

1,000,000+: French / Français (fr)
100,000+: German / Deutsch (de) • English (en) • Italian / Italiano (it) • Polish / Polski (pl) • Russian / Русский (ru) • Chinese / 中文 (zh)

10,000+: Multilingual Portal (www) • Arabic / العربية (ar) • Bengali / বাংলা (bn) • Catalan / Català (ca) • Czech / Čeština (cs) • Spanish / Español (es) • Persian / فارسی (fa) • Hebrew / עברית (he) • Hungarian / Magyar (hu) • Korean / 한국어 (ko) • Portuguese / Português (pt) • Swedish / Svenska (sv)

1,000+: Belarusian / Беларуская (be) • Breton / Brezhoneg (br) • Danish / Dansk (da) • Greek / Ελληνικά (el) • Esperanto (eo) • Finnish / Suomi (fi) • Gujarati / ગુજરાતી (gu) • Croatian / Hrvatski (hr) • Armenian / Հայերեն (hy) • Indonesian / Bahasa Indonesia (id) • Icelandic / Íslenska (is) • Japanese / 日本語 (ja) • Latin / Latina (la) • Limburgian / Limburgs (li) • Macedonian / Македонски (mk) • Malayalam / മലയാളം (ml) • Dutch / Nederlands (nl) • Norwegian / Norsk (Bokmål) (no) • Romanian / Română (ro) • Sanskrit / संस्कृत (sa) • Slovenian / Slovenščina (sl) • Serbian / Српски (sr) • Tamil / தமிழ் (ta) • Telugu / తెలుగు (te) • Thai / ไทย (th) • Turkish / Türkçe (tr) • Ukrainian / Українська (uk) • Venetian / Vèneto (vec) • Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt (vi) • Yiddish / ייִדיש (yi)
100+: Alemannic (als) • Azerbaijani / Azərbaycan (az) • Bulgarian / Български (bg) • Bosnian / Bosanski (bs) • Welsh / Cymraeg (cy) • Estonian / Eesti (et) • Galician / Galego (gl) • Kannada / ಕನ್ನಡ (kn) • Lithuanian / Lietuvių (lt) • Sakha / Сахалыы (sah)
<100: Anglo-Saxon / Englisc (ang) • Faroese / Føroyskt (fo) • Haitian / Krèyol ayisyen (ht) • Slovak / Slovenčina (sk) • Min Nan / Bân-lâm-gú (zh-min-nan)

The red links above need the {{Wiki}} infobox template, their Wikisource URLs, the {{Wikimedia-stub}} template (if appropriate), and the {{Wikisource}} navigation template added.

See also: Bibliowiki (formerly known as Wikilivres), a complimentary site hosted in Canada and run by Wikimedia Canada to host materials which are not public domain in the United States.


To not include articles which use this template in the category: Wikisource and the standard skin categories, type (or copy and paste) {{Wikisource|cat=no}} as a parameter before }}

Related templates
  • Template: Ws — a template which creates an interwiki link to any article on any Wikisource wiki site
  • Template: SeeWs — a template which creates an indented 'see also' message to any article on any Wikisource wiki site
  • Template: WikiApiary-Wikisource — an interwiki template linking to its respective article on WikiApiary